Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kathryn Murray has been flaunting her courage on the air since 1950, when husband Arthur put up the money for Party's first half-hour of relentlessly joyous dancing. Although they picked up a few sponsors, the show was gradually dropped to the status of summer replacement-and clobbered Cornball Lawrence Welk when placed opposite him. Thus encouraged, says Kathryn, "we figured that if we were going to take a chance on being criticized, we'd rather do it on a winter show." This year the Murrays finally found a full-time evening sponsor (P. Lorillard...
...trolley cars were running in Beirut again, though it was a bumpy ride through streets torn and pitted by five months of civil war. Joyous bonfires were lit, the shops rolled up their shutters, the barricades began to come down. Shots rang out, but only in celebration; peace had come at last to Lebanon...
...bank for Latin American economic development. At a special session of the Organization of American States, World Financier C. Douglas Dillon, now Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, announced: "The U.S. is prepared to consider the establishment of an inter-American regional-development institution." Latin America's joyous response was summed up by El Salvador Delegate Julio Heurtematte: "It is the realization of an old dream...
...commemorative service last week, nearly as many crowded into a nearby ballpark for a baseball game. As night fell, big bright neon signs flashed invitations to amusement centers. The broad Ota River glittered with floating lanterns, and fireworks burst their colored lights against the sky in celebration of the joyous Buddhist Festival of Lanterns. Adjoining the grisly Peace Memorial Data Hall in Nakajima Park is a modern, air-conditioned hotel that caters to the 7,000 foreigners who annually visit Hiroshima, and the more wealthy of the 2,000,000 Japanese visitors. In addition to tourists, Hiroshima lives...
...last week's joyous return to democracy, Colombians temporarily put aside the problems of their fertile, underdeveloped land. As their final official act, the junta members tactfully voted their own retirement from active service. In his first official act, Lleras Camargo decorated all five with the Cross of Boyacá, Colombia's highest medal...